Category: Crime
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Hackers leak fifth batch of stolen WADA data
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that, again today, the cyber hacker Group “Fancy Bear†released a batch of confidential athlete data on their website, which they illegally obtained from a Rio 2016 Olympic Games account of WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS). This time, the group released data concerning 41 athletes from 13…
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Olympics Terror Plot: 8 Charged For ISIS-Linked Plan To Attack Rio Games, Athletes
Eight Brazilians suspected of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack at the Rio Olympics were handed terrorism charges by a Brazil judge on Friday, according to Reuters. The group has been called “amateurs†by Brazilian officials but it’s believed their plans could have greatly disrupted the first Games ever held in South America. Brazilian officials, acting…
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Putin criticizes WADA for hypocrisy by allowing Western sportsmen & sportswomen to take doping
The information leaked by the group behind the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) hack raises lots of questions, as it revealed that some healthy athletes were allowed to use doping while the whole Russian Paralympic team was banned only on suspicion, Vladimir Putin has said. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a summit of the Commonwealth of…
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Hackers leak fourth batch of confidential WADA data
Four-time Olympic athletics champion Mo Farah and 14-time Grand Slam winning tennis player Rafael Nadal are among another 26 athletes whose leaked data has been revealed by hacking group Fancy Bears after a cyber-attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Farah, who successfully defended his 5,000 and 10,000 metres titles at last month’s Games in…
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Press release: Danish swimmer’s medical data leaked
Anti-Doping Denmark has received confirmation from WADA that Pernille Blume’s medical data has been leaked in connection with the hacking of WADA’s database. Anti Doping Denmark (ADD) and the Danish Swimming Federation has been informed by the world anti-doping Agency WADA, that Danish swimmer Pernille Blume’s medical data in WADA’s database ADAMS has been compromised…
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Russian hackers leak third batch of WADA data
The World Anti-Doping Agency said that the “Fancy Bear” Russian hacking group has leaked the confidential data of another 11 athletes who competed in the Rio Olympics. The athletes include four from the United Kingdom, three from Australia, two from Germany, and one each from Denmark and Spain. As with previous leaks, the athletes each…
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WADA confirms second batch of athlete data leaked by Russian hackers
Russian hackers under the banner “Fancy Bear” have released another batch of private health files of U.S. and other Olympians believed to be obtained in a hack of the World Anti-Doping Agency in August. The data release is the hacking group’s second this week. On Tuesday, the group published what it said were Olympic drug-testing…
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Inside The Ryan Lochte Protesters ‘Dancing’ Drama: What You Didn’t See On TV
Chaos erupted during the Season 23 premiere of “Dancing with the Stars,” as protesters wearing anti-Ryan Lochte T-shirts walked onto the stage during the swimmer’s critique with pro partner Cheryl Burke. https://youtu.be/2iZz-QB6-1Q
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Russian hackers leak WADA records, accuse US athletes of doping
A Russian hacker group known as “Fancy Bears” has accessed and leaked medical files from some of the most popular Olympic athletes, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed. Venus and Serena Williams, as well as gymnast Simone Biles, were among the targets. The attack isn’t all that surprising, considering that WADA recommended banning all…